actually, with our community, it is not. What other journals die for, we have sort of provided. This is why a Wiki journal may have a better chance than others, but only if it is prepared with the academic career paths and full proper code of conduct nuances considered (double-blind scholarly peer review, proper editorial board, PDFs with page numbers, etc.).
dj On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ed H. Chi <c...@acm.org> wrote: > There has been a lot of talk about how to start a journal. The real > issue in starting a journal is not the editorial board, or the way it > is published, or whether it will gather the citation impact. The real > issue is READERSHIP. > > If you can get people to read the journal, then it will have editors > wanting to serve the journal, and it will gather citation impact. > > The reason why WikiSym is changing is for the same reason. People are > not going to the conference! I think the attendance has been below > 100 for some time now. That's not a sustainable number for the amount > of work that goes into organizing a conference. > > --------------- > Ed H. Chi, Staff Research Scientist, Google > CHI2012 Technical Program co-chair > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > -- __________________________ dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak profesor zarządzania kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl
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